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Whether at work, on the go or at home, people rarely like to be interrupted. Here are some tips on preventing that from happening.

You too can prevent interruptions

1) Relax and get comfortable before you begin the task at hand; sit in a good chair, adjust the lighting, etc. It’s bad enough when other people interfere, you don’t need to let your own body beat them to it with a cramped neck or tired eyes.

2) Allow people onto your instant messenger contact list once you’re confident that they won’t abuse the privilege of being there.

3) Turn off your email/messaging program or any other work communications mechanism but make sure that people know how to reach you in case of emergency, work or otherwise. In my case, I used instant messaging as my hotline and that’s why it’s important to follow tip 2) before this one.

Don’t you hate it when you sit down to do something, you start getting really into it, you’re perhaps even working something complicated out in your mind and then RRRING! the phone goes or BEEPOO! an email arrives or BOOWEEP! someone messages you or HEY! you’re tapped on the shoulder…A few minutes later, you’re finally back to what you were doing and then…and then you’re thinking where was I?

And those are just the interruptions you had in the past 20 minutes.

Even worse is when no one gets in your way and you can concentrate except – oh look at that, I’ll just check the headlines quickly – or – what time is it? I’d better call Kate/Ofer/Ming-li to see what we’re doing tonight – or even, when around others – he doesn’t need to yell into that phone, we don’t all need to hear him.

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